TOPAZ CLARITYQUICK START GUIDE

Clarity

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Introduction

Topaz Clarity is the ultimate tool to create compelling and powerful images by intelligently enhancing contrast and clarity with absolutely no artifacts or halos. With just a few clicks you can easily manipulate your micro, mid-tone and overall contrast, trans-forming your image from ordinary to extraordinary, while maintaining the natural feeling and tonality you are after. Using a pro-prietary technology, Topaz Clarity effectively improves local contrast without halos or noise, giving you remarkable results with minimal effort.

Here are some of the unique features introduced in Topaz Clarity:

1. Selective Contrast Control. With Clarity, we have developed a cutting-edge process of selecting specific contrast variations in your original image, allowing you to quickly target and then increase or decrease the contrast and clarity in that specific variation.

2. Breakthrough Halo-Free Algorithm. Boost contrast and clarity without emphasizing transitions between light and dark areas, eliminating the common problem of halos, noise and artifacts.

3. Advanced Hue/Saturation/Luminance Technology. Using IntelliColor technology, you can easily enhance your image with the HSL filter, getting stronger, yet more natural HSL adjustments.

4. Re-Imagined Masking Workflow. The masking module, now attached to each adjust-ment tab contains a comprehensive set of tools including an edge-aware brush, gradi-ent mask, smart feather tool, color aware tool and more.

5. User Interface Design. With Clarity, we have continued to develop a cleaner, more modern and efficient interface to improve usability, workflow and overall aesthetics.

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Clarity Introduction

1. Presets/Effects Panel 5. Settings & Parameters2. Preview Window 4. Navigator PanelPre-defined presets, organized by type of effect..

Quick buttons and sliders to adjust the various effects.

Displays the preview of the original and ad-justed image.

Tabs to view the preview navigator, loupe, mask and histogram information.

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3. Viewing ToolsTools that control zoom and other viewing options.

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Tools

Use the various tools in the tool panel during your workflow to make image adjustments.

1. Navigator/Loupe/Mask/Histogram - Depending on which tab is chosen, various information will display.

• The Navigator displays the region of the preview image you are cur-rently focused on. You can drag the preview navigator box around to pan your image. • The Loupe displays the area of your image chosen at a 100% view.• The Mask tab displays the current mask applied to your image from the individual adjustment tabs. • The Histogram displays the graphical representation of the current tonal distribution in your image.

2. Sliders and Parameters/Masks - Controls the editing process using sliders to adjust the various effects and masks for each adjustment tab.

3. Undo/Redo and Reset Buttons - From the left: Undo and redo your steps, reset all sliders/values back to default settings.

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Clarity Presets & Effects

1. Effects List

Lists all of the included effect collections that can be applied to your images.

3. Presets List

Lists all of the available presets for the selected Effect.

4. Preset Preview

Provides a preview of the available presets in-cluded in the Effects list selected. Scroll over the preset list to see each preview.

Presets are pre-defined settings that you can recall and reapply to any im-age at any time. They are a great way to speed up and simplify your work-flow, and offer creative ideas.

We’ve included some default presets for you and, although they won’t work for every single photograph, they serve as excellent starting points.

2.Preset Options

The preset options allow you to star your favor-ite presets, save/delete presets (default presets cannot be deleted), import/export presets for sharing, and take up to 99 “snapshots” to com-pare while editing.

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5. Preset QuickLook View

View all of the presets in a collection at the same time by clicking the grid icon on the top right of the Presets list.

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Quick Start Use

This Topaz Clarity Quick Start Guide is for users who are familiar with the image enhancement process and who want

to jump straight into using Clarity.

For a more in-depth and comprehensive break down of using Topaz Clarity please view the Topaz Clarity User

Guide.

The Clarity User Guide can be found here:

http://downloads.topazlabs.com/docs/clarity/usersguide.pdf

You can also watch video tutorials online at: http://www.topazlabs.com/tutorials/clarity

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